Arsenal aren’t going to win like this every game, but they’re going to do it often enough – especially over the first couple of months of the season – to be an absolute delight to watch. Let’s all get carried away because sometimes that’s fun and nice…
Arsenal are going to be very, very good value this season. On a day when Manchester City brutally and ruthlessly showed once again why nobody else need worry themselves by entertaining thoughts of winning the league, the Gunners have nevertheless confirmed the suspicion that they are absolutely good enough to return to the Champions League this time and are going to be extremely watchable as they go about it.
From the moment the fixture list was announced, there was always a tantalising prospect of Arsenal doing something quite special at the start of this season if they could parlay their impressive recruitment into instant results. That possibility is now a probability and well on its way to becoming reality. We all enjoy the jokes about “everyone plays everyone twice” but who you play when obviously matters; you only have to look at Arsenal’s self-inflicted disaster at Spurs last season to see that.
The problem is that at the time the fixtures come out you can never quite be sure when exactly is a good time to play anyone.
But with Manchester United currently a hot mess, Arsenal could rack up some serious points before facing any of the teams who look like their actual competition this season and before any real-life cynicism and weariness can intrude. After this second mighty impressive win in a row, they have Bournemouth, Fulham, Villa, United, Everton, Brentford before welcoming Spurs to the Emirates, a fixture where Arsenal’s record is in any case formidable. That starts a seven-game run that also features Liverpool, City and Chelsea but don’t worry about that now.
If anything, and if we’re going to be dementedly harsh about it, this dismantling of Leicester was slightly less impressive than the win at Palace on the opening night of the season. No, shut up. Listen. I’ve got a reason. And it’s only this. That win at Palace was the sort of win that we don’t necessarily expect from recent Arsenal sides. Most decent teams will expect to beat this iteration of Leicester at home; plenty will fail to take maximum points from Selhurst Park.
It’s splitting hairs, though, really, because while this may have been the sort of win we always know Arsenal can produce it…
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